Tea Party Thread (downturn, Cheney, McCain, unemployment)

[coastalrap]

Originally Posted by highdesertmutz

That is because they didn't know what they were protesting against. duh

Sure, you just keep thinking that

[Oerdin]

Originally Posted by oz in SC

Hard to trust a 'news source' that spells 'Party' incorrectly....

Typos happen but either way the Atlantic is one of the oldest magazines in America (founded 1857) and it is highly respected on both sides of the aisle. It isn't a partisan news source at all.

[oz in SC]

I would think Obama should be aware what the people he is supposedly representing think....

Unless he simply doesn't care.

You must have a really big book club if 20,000 show up....

[Redrover]

My favorite: "My Piggy Bank is not Your ATM"

[Oerdin]

The OP in this thread is so dead on. It's been a top down astroturf attempt by the GOP from the start. One that has been a dismal failure since only 26,000 people in a nation of 300 million even bothered to show up for. We get larger crowds for local political events here in just this city.

[oz in SC]

Originally Posted by Tank1906

How long as that been going on and why protest now? We've always had taxes..

Way too long and now is because things are getting worse....what was the federal budget this year???

Explain how we could pay for the military without taxes...One conservative "claimed" that Obama is cutting the military budget (which he isn't) but doesn't want to pay taxes..[/quote]
It isn't an either/or situation....I know this may sound horrible to you but the fedgov. is too big and too expensive,it needs to be reduced as we cannot afford to pay for it anymore.

The military could quite easily be reduced IF we weren't out policing the world.

[ELOrocks17]

Originally Posted by Dukester

And who funded the Iraq War when Bush was in office, the MoneyTree? The Chinese and we be paying for a long long time.

Why are you trying to change the subject?

[highdesertmutz]

Originally Posted by Tank1906

Again, was Bush not spending out of control with NO eye to the future?.No protest..Nobody was POed then..

It was unpatriotic and un-American to protest under Bush, you could have been jailed for that, or worse, sent to gitmo as a terra suspect.

[ZugZub]

Originally Posted by NCN

I saw many signs that the rally people were showing, but I think the one I liked the best said, "We want our country back." I would really like to have our free country back.

Ah tea parties...where the 90% of the people who pay 10% of the tax come out to protest. Where were the 10% that pay 90% of the taxes? Oh right...they were in their offices working.

[highdesertmutz]

Originally Posted by coastalrap

Sure, you just keep thinking that

here ya go.
http://www.city-data.com/forum/polit...ml#post8356624
most protesters in this tea party non-extravaganza were clueless.